soc prototype starfire platforms · 2013-08-09 · profile of our prototype platforms ... usb 2.0...

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April 9, 2011 Beijing China

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SOC Prototype

StarFire Platforms


SOC Prototype and StarFire Series Platforms

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SOS Prototype And StarFire Series Platforms

Agenda About HyperSilicon

Profile of our Prototype Platforms

StarFire-STK

StarFire-DPK (Demo Program Kit)

Each Mainboard introduction

StarFire-DA Series

StarFire-V820/530/340, H820/530/340, T820/530/340

StarFire-M820/530/340

StarFire-E820/530/340

StarFire-T340/530/820

StarFire-V180

StarFrie-EARM/DARM/CevARM

StarService



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About HyperSilicon – 1/2

Founded in 2003, private high-tech company

Headquarter in Beijing China, sales office in Shanghai

Server for SOC/IP design and verification industry

Our business

FPGA prototype platform and design service

Analog IP and design service

Agent for various EDA & IP selling in China:

• EDA: ESL SystemVerilog Complier and Verification tools

• IP: USB 2.0 PHY,USB 3.0 PHY, ADC/DAC, PCI-E, SATA II,

DVB-C/DVB-T/DVB-S2, H.264, MP3/WMA, and OTP memory



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About HyperSilicon – 2/2

No.1 Supplier in China for SOC prototype platform

First partner of Altera in mainland China

Partner of Tensilica

De facto Partner of ARM and CEVA

Agent for Commsonic, DCD, Kilopass, intoPIX,

SiliconOcean, IPGoal, TVS, Chips&Media and

DPcontrol

Innovation, Count on Customers’ requirement

Good reputation and strong customer base



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Profile of Prototype Platform

Powered by high end FPGA devices from Altera

Both All-in-one and Modularized boards

Only one All-in-one SOC FPGA board supplier

Famous for the customizing design of FPGA prototype boards

We expertise at :

Video/Audio consumer SOC prototype

Embedded processor flow: ARM, MIPS, CEVA, Tensilica

Quality Guaranteed:

ISO9000 qualified assembly factory

Self test Kit

Full Demo Programs Kit



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StarFire series Platform

include:

Main boards

• All in One

• Modularized

STK ---self test kit

DPK ---demo program kit

Design Service---customizing

design service

Various daughter boards

• HSPI Daughter boards

• HSMC Daughter boards

StarFire

Main Boards

STAR

Support

StarFire-DPK StarFire-STK

StarService daughter

Boards




HyperSilicon Unified Interface Standard -----HSPI

Mainly for Modularized boards

StarFire Apply with HSPI mainly, and some of the

interface apply with HSMC

HSMC is the Interface Standard of Altera, thus the board with

HSMC can connected to most of the Altera’s COTS daughter

boards




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StarFire Family

StarFire-V820/530/340

StarFire-H820/530

StarFire-T820/530

StarFire-V180

StarFire-V120

StarFire-DP25

StarFire-DVB4S

StarFire-I820

StarFire-DA820/530/340

StarFire-DC820/530/340


StarFire-EARM180

StarFire-DARM180

StarFire-CevARM180

All-in-one Boards: Modularized Boards:



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StarFire Family – 1/3 FPGA

Prototype

Board

FPGA Devices

used X Qty. ASIC Gates Structure

Key Features and

Application Stackable

StarFire-

DA820//340

StratixIV820/

or Stratix III 340

(1760 pin) x 2

16.4/8.2M Gates Modularized

600 interconnection between

two FPGA devices, DDR2 and

DDR3 DIMM slot, HSPI interface

√

StarFire-

E820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1760 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates Modularized

General Purpose Board, HSPI

and HSMC interfaces √



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StarFire Family – 2/3

FPGA

Prototype

Board

FPGA

Devices used

X Qty.

ASIC Gates Structure Key Features and Application Stackable

StarFire-

M820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1760 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension

DDRII@666MHz,HDMI transmitter

for various Video and Audio SOC,

like DTV/STB/MID, DDR3 Dimm

√

StarFire-

H820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1760 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension



DTV/STB/MID

√

StarFire-

V820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1760 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension



like DTV/STB/MID

√

StarFire-

T820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1517 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension

DDRII@666MHz，HDMI transmitter

and receiver，PCI-E, SATA II for

various Video and Audio SOC, like

DTV/STB/MID and Surveillance

√

StarFire-

I820/530/340

StratixIV820/530

or Stratix III 340

(1517 pin) x 1

8.2/5.3/3.4M

Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension

PISMO2，

DDRIII@666Mhz,DDRII@533Mhz No

StarFire-

V180

StratixII 180

(1020 pin) x 2 1.8M Gates

All-in-one

With certain

extension

Covering most of the peripheral for

STB/DTV No



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StarFire Family – 3/3

FPGA

Prototype

Board

FPGA

Devices used

X Qty.

ASIC Gates Structure Key Features and

Application Stackable

Processor

Test Board

Support

StarFire-

EARM

StratixII 180

(1020 pin) x 2 3.6M Gates Modularized

Universal for various

SOC √ ARM Coretile

StarFire-

DRAM StratixII 180

x 2 3.6M Gates Modularized

For Various SOC,

PCI/PCI-X slots, √ ARM Coretile

StarFire-

CevARM

StratixII 180

x 2 3.6M Gates Modularized

For various SOC, CEVA

and ARM platform √

ARM Coretile

and CEVA CA

at same time

StarFire-

V120

CycloneIII 120

x 2 1.2M Gates All-in-one

HDMI,SHMC interfaces

Low cost solution for

Audio/Video

No

StarFire-

DP25

CycloneIII 25

x 1 0.25M Gates All-in-one

LCD panel display

verification kit No

ODM for

Altera



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HyperSilicon Customers-1



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ShenYue



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and more under NDA…


StarFire-SKT

Self-test kit



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Picture of StarFire-SKT

Runtime Software



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StarFire-SKT

Include one set of runtime software, one Test Interface

Board (TIB), one JTAG cable, and one Altera USB-

Blaster.

Test any IO through SAMTEC connector

Check Open, Short, and Bridge

Check the connection between connectors and FPGA

devices

Check the FPGA device(s)


StarFire-DPK

Self-test kit

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StarFire-DPK

HDMI transmitter demo

Showing the video at CIF, three frames

Video output

Showing the picture screen

DDRII SDRAM interface demo

Altera MegaCore of DDRII, running up to 666MHz

DDR SDRAM test program

SDRAM test program

USB, UART, LEDs

Power debug and JTAG downloading test programs


StarFire-DA820/340 Series



StarFire-DA820/340 Picture



StarFire-DA Series Features Two pieces Altera Stratix IV

EP4SE820/340,Supporting Verification of design up to

16.4 million ASIC gates

600 connections between two FPGAs

Expand interface suitable for HSPI protocol

Support 1440 General IO signal

Redundant FPGA core power supply

Full DDR2, DDR3 power supply, and DDR2/3 Sodimm

Slots



StarFire-DC820/530/340

Series



Picture of StarFire-DC series



Feature of StarFire-DC Series Modularized prototype board, 16.4 Million Gates, stackable to

meet more capacity, suitable for communication terminal SOC

prototyping ,such as LTE terminal SOC…

692 connection between the two main FPGA chips

Standard DDR2-Sodimm expansion interface for

SDRAM,DDR,DDR2,DDR3and so on

DAC/ADC section, DAC part of the maximum sampling rate up to

125Msps,SFDR is 60dB

ADC’s maximum sampling rate of 105Msps,SFDR is 75dB

NOR Flash and NAND Flash chips on board

USB2.0 device and USB PHY interface assembled on board

6 coaxial SMA interfaces to provide high-speed differential clock

input



StarFire-DC series Chat




Series



Picture of StarFire-E820/530/340



Feature of StarFire-E820/530/340

Lowcost FPGA prototype board

Altera Stratix III/IV series

EP3SL340H40/EP4SE530/820 H40 as main process

chip

Memory type contains DDR/DDR2/ DDR3-Sodimm

Slot

Configuration type with JTAG/FPP/USBdevice

USB-OTG PHY, debug device contained

All Altera HSTC Serials’ daughterboard can be

adapted seamless



StarFire-M820/530/340

Series



Picture of StarFire-M820/530/340


Altera Stratix III/IV serials

EP3SL340F43/EP4SE530/820 as main process chip

Be adept in video process, as video DAC, HDMI

transmitter

Memory type contains DDR/DDR2/ DDR3-Sodimm

Slot


All StarFire-V820/530/340 Serials’ daughterboard can

be adapted seamless

Feature of StarFire-M820/530/340


StarFire-V820/530/340

Series



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Picture of StarFire-V820/530/340



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Chart of StarFire-V820/340



StarFire-I820/530/340



Picture of StarFire-I820/530/340



Feature of StarFire-I820/530/340

Altera Stratix III/IV serials EP3SL340/EP4SE530/820

as main process chip

Be adept Memory Controller Test，SOC CPU core

validation

Memory type contains DDR2/ DDR3-Sodimm Slot

PISMO standard Memory Expansion Interface




StarFire-H820/530/340



Picture of StarFire-H820/530/340



Chart of StarFire-H820/530/340

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Stratix III/IV

340/530/820

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USB Dev

CY7C68013

USB PHY

ISP1504

UART

UART

Ethernet PHY

100/1000SWTCH/Reset/LED

DAC

VGA/RCAVGA/RCA

ADC

LC

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FLASH_Inter

CSI_Interface

JTAG

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HDMI

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32bits

Ex

tent IO

sG

PIO

S

GPIOS

EXP_CLK

EXP_CLK

EXP_CLK

Slow Interfaces



Feature of StarFire-H Series

Altera Stratix III/IV serials

EP3SL340F43/EP4SE530/820

On Board DDR/DDR2 support

HDMI transmitter&receiver Support

Video DAC Support

Video ADC Support

USB Device&PHY support

10/100/1000 MEthernet Support



UART Support

SCSI Interface Support

LCD Interface Support

High Speed Interface Support

Low Speed Interface Support

LED/Reset/Switch Support

Feature of StarFire-H Series



StarFire-T820/530/340



Picture of StarFire-T series



Chart of StarFire-T series



An Altera Stratix IV EP4SE820F1517 FPGA, to meet at least 8.2 million

gate ASIC design verification, rapid growth for the current capacity of the

circuit to provide a reliable verification of capacity to ensure

With high-speed FPGA transceiver chip and the mother chip interconnect

for small FPGA logic capacity to provide large-scale expansion of space,

interconnect level using two standard 1.8V and 3.3V, real-time Internet

conditions to adjust

5 pieces of DDR II memory chips MT47H64M16 (64Meg × 16bit ×

8banks) in parallel, data-bit-wide 32/16-bit, clock speed 333Mhz, up to

512Mbyte of the board DDR II SDRAM (can be backward compatible)

Integrated 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY

physical layer protocol

Feature of StarFire-T Series



Two SATAII standard interface, providing up to 3.875Gbps transmission

bandwidth of the interface to support high-speed serial design

PCI-e single-chip PHY support, PCI-e 1.1, optional clock rate

100MHz/125MHz, TI-PIPE MAC Interface

HDMI transceiver support

Integrated USB PHY chip, USB controller, the transmission of debugging,

the control logic for the user to facilitate

Feature of StarFire-T Series


StarFire-V180 Series



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StarFire-V180 Picture


StarFire-DARM Series

(EARM Series)



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Picture of StarFire-DARM



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Picture of StarFire-EARM



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Architecture

Stratix II Stratix II

V1 V2 V3

H1 H2

H3 H4



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There are two FPGA devices in one board, it is

optional to choose only one FPGA mounted

FPGA device can be selected within ALTERA StratixII

series including EP2S60/180，FBGA1020 pinout

There are 240 interconnects between two FPGA

devices，which can also be connected to external

through V2 connector

Interconnects can be expanded via connector-bridges

FPGAs and interconnects



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The capacity is unlimited, with the boards stacked

one by one

Stackble ……


V1 V2 V3

H1 H2

H3 H4


V1 V2 V3

H1 H2

H3 H4



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Stacked StarFire-EARM working



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High performance connectors from SAMTEC Inc.

Total 7 extension connectors for USER to extend : H1，H2，H3，

H4，V1，V2，V3

Total 1260 IO are usable, with 180 at each connector.

The delay between any two IO signal lines is no more than 500mil

The signal maps are exactly same for H1，H2，H3 and H4; The

signal maps are exactly same for V1，V2，and V3

Extendable I/Os



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Suitable for prototype to SOC, which contain any ARM

cores

ARM connection:

INTEGRATOR Coretile by ARM can be connected through V1,

H1, or V2 connectors, which are compatible both physically

and electrically.

ARMTM core supporting



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There are 3 PCI slots, each are compatible with

PCI32/PCI64/PCI-X

(PCI/PCI-X is only at DARM, no EARM)

Daughter boards can be connected through PCI slots

One IDE slot

HDD power connector

Some LED lights

Reset buttons

POR supporting

PCI slots and others



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All the IOs are divided as 7 groups, VCCIO for each

group can be set individually

Group1: FPGA1 BANK1&2 ，FPGA1 BANK5&6

Group2: FPGA1 BANK3&4






Group

VCCIO

3.3V

VCCIO on board

VCCIO from

Daughter

Boards

Power Levels



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DD Daughter Boards (function)

DDR Memory

SDRAM

SRAM

DDR SODIMM

NOR FLASH

NAND FLASH

Video Input/Output

Audio Input/Output

HDMI Video Input/Output

LCD Interface

CCD/CMOS Interface

DVI Input & Output

UART Interface

10/100M Ethernet PHY

USB1.1/2.0/OTG PHY

USB Device

PS2 Interface

Transform Stream (TS) I/O



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Daughter Boards - 1

DD-DDRdevice

MT46V16M16 ( 4Meg X 16bit X 4banks )

DDR Devices，

64bit

Clock 133MHz



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Daughter Board - 2

DD-DDRSODIMM

2.5V DDR SODIM connector

200 pin

Up to 1G byte

DDR266 or DDR333



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Daughter Board - 3

DD-MemoryDS

MT48LC8M32 (2MegX32bitX4 banks) SDRAM

• 32 bit

• 166MHz

IDT71V7160（512KX32bit）ZBT SRAM

• 32 bit

• 225MHz



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Daughter Board - 4

DD-Peripheral

NAND FLASH(NAND04GW3B2B) 4G bit

NOR FLASH(TE28F128J3D-75) 128M bit

Ethernet PHY

USB 2.0/OTG PHY

UART

PS2 X 2


StarFire-CevARM Series



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Picture of StarFire-CevARM



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Picture of StarFire-CevARM



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StarFire-CevARM Basic

Based on StarFire-DARM

DD-Daughter boards compatible

Higher Signal Integration

Patent Pending


----StarService


StarService

We are pleased to do customizing design for

you

with EXCELLENT supports!



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Altera FPGA devices Oriented

High end SOC prototype board 8-30 layer PCB, 200MHz+, complex system

SOC embedded processors powered ARM, MIPS,Tensilica, CEVA, ZSP, etc.

We can support the software flow of the processors

Focus on the applications of consumer SOCs: DTV, STB, PMP/MP4, various MIDs, and any Audio and Video

related products

HyperSilicon have certain capability of software engineering

StarService Basic



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Half customizing design

Modification design based on our off-the-shelf StarFire series

prototype boards

Daughter boards customizing design

Full customizing design of the boards

System design based on customer’s ASIC/SOC after

using Hypersilicon’s FPGA based Prototype boards

StarService type



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Modification design based on StarFires

6—15weeks

Daughter boards customizing design

1—5 weeks

Full customizing design of the boards

3—6 months

System design based on customer’s ASIC/SOC after

using Hypersilicon’s FPGA based Prototype boards

Depending on the project

StarService Schedule



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